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Db2 for z/OS

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For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add/improve support for JSON Publishing and Parsing functions

Currently the JSON functions on DB2 z/OS are lagging behind other platforms (LUW, iSeries) by atleast 3-4 years. There is no support for building JSON document using functions like JSON_ARRAY, JSON_OBJECT, JSON_ARRAYAGG, JSON_OBJECTAGG which are a...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

the SYSPACKAGE's column "lastused" needs to update more frequently

Hi IBM, As you see below in description of "lastused" column on SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, the updated must be done "whenever" the package is used but it's not true, so due to this doubt that we have when we saw that this column was not updated after pack...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

I would like an easy way to validate that a bound query is used to hint a dynamic query

Today, it is easy to validate that a bound query is used as a hint to a static query. After all, there is a column updated in PLAN_TABLE when the package is bound that exploits the bound query. But, it becomes difficult to know if a dynamic query...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User interface to provide correlation between Db2 packages and load module

Pain Point: Housekeeping of Db2 packages (deletion of old, no longer needed application packages) is done subsequently to the houskeeping of the corresponding load modules on the loadmod. Today we use the contoken to correlate the load module wi...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Better filter factors - use RI for this

The Db2/LUW optimizer has some algorithms that affect the optimization of queries on that platform based on the fact that RI is involved. But, Db2 for Z can calculate very incorrect filter factors that can be much more correct if Db2 enforced RI w...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COMP - provide an option to write the output to a table

We have a lot of objects being uncompressed today and where we like to check, if compression would be usefull. Therefore DSN1COMP is a great tool, but it requires us, to check each output manually. That to much effort to do it for all uncompressed...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 does not use a FlashCopy (Imagecopy) that has been migrated by DFHSM.

DB2 does not use a FlashCopy (Imagecopy) that has been migrated by DFHSM so we have check for this in RECOVER, which is a potential case for error/mishandling. DB2 should do a recall of recall of a migrated Flashcopy/Imagecopy as with all other ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 11 Not under consideration

UUID support

Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE

Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be sure that the table is really empty.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration